Needs Alt-text: 'As a kid, they made me say the words “with liberty and justice for all” every morning for school. Now I’m called “woke” and “un-American” for wanting liberty and justice for all.' Growing up as a comfy White boy in the early 1950s I believed what they told me in school, and 1/n

I'm sure linguists have a name for this particular process, semantic broadening or something. Whatever it's called this is the type specimen. Acoustic bike.

Here's the week in review. Yes, also there's a war.

It’s cool how the people who control the US government right now just openly take it as a personal attack when the Pope says something like “God will not reward evil men”

Well I’m glad to see someone at blue sky HQ finally took my advice and got rid of this website’s most controversial feature: the posts

Ew indeed, this is ew on so many levels of what's wrong with capitalism and patriarchy and all the consequent evils. Garbage in, garbage out, garbage back in again (C. Doctorow) w/no regard for its truth, just its volume, and all that effort just to sustain the hype and keep the $billions 1/2

Pope from Chicago was a good choice, seems like the right man for the moment.

I think there is something wrong with Fetterman's brain, so I grant him diminished accountability, but for the rest of these candy-ass Moderates it's a mixture of disgust and bafflement, how in hell can they be so unaware of their roles and responsibilities in this moment in history?

I’m a sucker for attempts at declaring a canon. It’s always fun to have opinions.

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

I have said it before; chocolate raisins are nature's most perfect food. So this definitely makes sense.

As a divorced guy I was gonna stay out of this thread, but this is too good not to spread around.

I think that the assumption that everyone believes what I believe is by itself enough to distinguish between right wing and left wing. I don't assume that, none of my friends assumes that, but every Republican and Fox News/OAN/etc. personality seems to take it for unquestioned fact.

I think Gonzo speaks for all of us here. Eloquently.

This made me laugh out loud.

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

Ro is not my favorite Congressperson because he is the rep from Silicon Valley and he has to schmooze with people like Musk and Thiel and Altman and Bezos and I think it affects his perception, but if he keeps this up I will soften my criticism somewhat. Time for the back-benchers to speak up.

Do you have cat food in the apocalypse kit? If so what kind and what if I stop liking it

It's beyond the power of words to express how profoundly he doesn't care about anything. An empathy black hole. He should be removed far away from the levers of power before he does something irrevocable. Don't think we have a 2-week reprieve, either. Don't let anyone tell you that.

Just the simple truth, every D in Congress should be saying the same thing, House and Senate both. And keep saying it and don't stop.

It is way past time for the grown-ups to step up and take away Grandpa's car keys, I don't know all the procedural details but D Congresspeople could maybe come back and take over the pro forma daily sessions and get some media attention, this is a fucking crisis, people, let's make some noise.

people think the talmud is like the protocols of the elders of zion but it's 9,000 pages of "if a donkey kicks a lamp and sets a hay bale on fire, who pays for the hay" in every possible combination of owners of the donkey, lamp, and hay bale

Senator Markey sounding the alarm loud and clear, this is an emergency, the damned house is on fire.

I'm pretty sure we never assumed he's trying to do a good job, but other than that, yeah.

You know, this could actually work.

I dunno exactly what it is I like about this story. Dim outlines of something about karma, maybe.

I have so many woman friends who believe this and I love them all so much that I do not even blink, it's just a religion, doesn't have to be completely factual. Jesus-mythers, otoh, I got absolutely no tolerance. But I digress. ALT-text needs to say the dog is swatting Peter and saying "NO. BAD."

I have a feeling I must be one of the anti-bedtime leftists he's talking about, but I just really can't understand why I should feel bad about it. One of the best things about being old is no bedtime, along with all the candy and ice cream you want.

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

I can’t think of one reason that House Democrats would not be preparing Articles of Impeachment for Hegseth.

Musical chairs time. Women out first, then the foreigners like Rubio and Patel, Nordic purebloods like Hegseth last of all.

Come on, politicians, this is impeachable. This and a bunch of other stuff, but this is slam-dunk High Crimes and it's time to call out the flagrant n****r-baiting racism at the heart of this administration. We are grown-ups, we have to talk about this.

I'm in north central MA and we are in early Spring, snowing an inch or less tonight and high 60s tomorrow, and the oil company just topped up my tank for I hope from now to Fall, and the bill is for a bit over $5 a gallon, up almost $2 from previous, and I'm glad they brought it now and not later.

There is so much deep lore out there that I know almost but not quite nothing about, and it makes me kind of sad but also deeply curious.

There must be at least a few Republicans who are watching Trump and imagining what the first weeks of a Vance presidency will be like if Trump continues to stubbornly not drop dead, and I'll bet they are scared shitless. He will not leave gracefully, and it is increasingly dangerous to let him stay.

Jesus Christ: "You know you've all treated me very unfairly, and I don't mind, I don't mind that much but you've been treating me very unfairly and it's going to have to stop, alright, I forgive you but it's going to have to stop, I just think you should be showing me a little more gratitude..-"

As an old anglo White guy it didn't occur to me to think too much about Gorsuch's questions, I know he has this strange chamber of clarity about Native Americans in the muddle of his thinking so I didn't think much except "good for him", but unsurprisingly a Native American sees it differently. 1/2

This is a good point, at least a few Senators and Congresspersons are getting close to talking about actually doing something, let's see if we can get that idea moving. History is already taking notes.

Anybody who thinks this guy (Markey, I'm talking about) is too old and needs to be put out to pasture should tell me who they think would be better.

What do you suppose the source code for Claude Code looks like? Python? Plain-language prompts? Looking for factual-type answers mostly, please, but I realize that's not up to me.

Reminder for my USA/Canada peeps who are still up, for tomorrow morning.

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

Hard to divine the thinking of a doddering madman based on his visible behavior, but this has the ring of plausibility for me.

A whole Federal agency with what, 70 billion dollars funding for this year?, devoted exclusively and relentlessly to the goal of hurting poor people. Theatrically. Vile.

You don't have to live in Rhode Island to have a favorite Rhode Island store.